Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS

About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

10

S&P Global Commodity Insights
The Role: Senior Cloud Engineer
The Location: Hyderabad, Gurgaon
The Team: The Cloud Engineering Team is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure that supports various applications and services within the S&P Global Commodity Insights organization. This team collaborates closely with data science, application development, and security teams to ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of our cloud solutions.

The Impact: As a Cloud Engineer, you will play a vital role in deploying and managing cloud infrastructure that supports our strategic initiatives. Your expertise in AWS and cloud technologies will help streamline operations, enhance service delivery, and ensure the security and compliance of our environments.

What’s in it for you: This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud technologies and collaborate with various teams across the organization. You will gain exposure to multiple S&P Commodity Insights Divisions and contribute to projects that have a significant impact on the business. This role opens doors for tremendous career opportunities within S&P Global.

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure using core AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and CloudFront, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Deploy, manage, and scale Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS, ensuring high availability, secure networking, and efficient resource utilization.
• Develop secure, compliant AWS environments by configuring IAM roles/policies, KMS encryption, security groups, and VPC endpoints.
• Configure logging, monitoring, and alerting with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty to support observability and incident response.
• Enforce security and compliance controls via IAM policy audits, patching schedules, and automated backup strategies.
• Monitor infrastructure health, respond to incidents, and maintain SLAs through proactive alerting and runbook execution.
• Collaborate with data science teams to deploy machine learning models using Amazon SageMaker, managing model training, hosting, and monitoring.
• Automate and schedule data processing workflows using AWS Glue, Step Functions, Lambda, and EventBridge to support ML pipelines.
• Optimize infrastructure for cost and performance using AWS Compute Optimizer, CloudWatch metrics, auto-scaling, and Reserved Instances/Savings Plans.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation for repeatable, automated infrastructure deployments.
• Implement disaster recovery, backups, and versioned deployments using S3 versioning, RDS snapshots, and CloudFormation change sets.
• Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines using AWS services like CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy to support application and model deployments.
• Manage and optimize real-time inference pipelines using SageMaker Endpoints, Amazon Bedrock, and Lambda with API Gateway to ensure reliable, scalable model serving.
• Support containerized AI workloads using Amazon ECS or EKS, including model serving and microservices for AI-based features.
• Collaborate with SecOps and SRE teams to uphold security baselines, manage change control, and conduct root cause analysis for outages.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and architectural planning to ensure scalable and maintainable cloud infrastructure.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date infrastructure documentation, including architecture diagrams, access control policies, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with application, data, and security teams to align cloud solutions with business and technical goals.
• Stay current with AWS and AI/ML advancements, suggesting improvements or new service adoption where applicable.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS services and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience in deploying and managing cloud solutions in a collaborative Agile environment.
• Ability to present technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
• Excellent multi-tasking skills and the ability to manage multiple projects under tight deadlines.

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering or related roles, specifically with AWS.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of container orchestration and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with security best practices in cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive Hands-on Experience with AWS Services.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience with greenfield projects and building cloud infrastructure from scratch.

About S&P Global Commodity Insights
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value.

We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.

S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit http://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology–the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.

Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.

From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:
 

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

Global Hiring and Opportunity at S&P Global:

At S&P Global, we are committed to fostering a connected and engaged workplace where all individuals have access to opportunities based on their skills, experience, and contributions. Our hiring practices emphasize fairness, transparency, and merit, ensuring that we attract and retain top talent. By valuing different perspectives and promoting a culture of respect and collaboration, we drive innovation and power global markets.

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Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.  

 

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.  
 
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